First Federal Bank Blog

For the third year in a row, First Federal Bank was named in Newsweek’s America’s Best Banks 2023 as the Best Small Bank in Florida.

First Federal Bank is honored to announce that their President and CEO, John Medina, has accepted the role of North Central Florida Regional Chair of the Florida Chamber of Commerce for 2023. John has been active with the Florida Chamber for over 30 years and has served on their Board of Directors since 2010.

First Federal Bank is honored to have received the 2022 recognition of “Best Bank” in 5 of its service areas; this is in addition to having been named by Newsweek as America’s the Best Small Bank in Florida for 2022. As a community-based mutual institution headquartered in Lake City, FL, the bank is owned by its customers rather than stockholders,...

Heads-up! There are people exploiting the Hurricane Ian disaster. There are fake Facebook pages, tweets are going out with fake charity websites, and phishing emails are sent out asking for donations to #HurricaneIan Relief Funds that they keep for themselves. Avoid falling for any scams. If you want to make a donation, go to the website of the...

First Federal Bank welcomes Michael Vasalos, CFA, CPA, who has recently joined the First Federal team as Senior Vice President, Director of Financial Risk Management and Analytics.

First Federal Bank announces commercial lending services are expanding to the Tampa market, to complement the existing mortgage offering.   Jennifer Mulligan has joined the First Federal team as the Commercial Market Manager and will locally serve her hometown of Tampa Bay.

First Federal Bank, a Florida-based bank, is celebrating the opening of new Interactive Teller Machines (ITM) at both 9700 Touchton Rd in Jacksonville, FL and in the Wildlight community, located at 40 Floco Ave in Yulee, FL. These new ITMs provide convenient, full-service drive-thru banking for consumers and businesses in Jacksonville beginning...

First Federal Bank announced in February that it would donate to sixty non-profit organizations over a period of 60 days. Founded in 1962, 2022 marks First Federal Bank’s 60^th anniversary of being a community bank. To celebrate, bank employees nominated local organizations and one winner was drawn each day for 60 days. $1000 was donated to each of...

Lake City, Florida 

Florida Gateway College’s newest building will be named the Quinn & Keith Leibfried STEM Building by the locally headquartered First Federal Bank. Construction began on the college’s new STEM building in March of 2021. When finished, it will host numerous classrooms; chemistry, microbiology, physics, and botany labs; faculty...